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Growth and Demise of Permian Biogenic Chert Along Northwest Pangea: Evidence for End-Permian Collapse of Thermohaline Circulation Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 184 (2002) 37^63 www.elsevier.com/locate/palaeo Growth and demise of Permian biogenic chert along northwest Pangea: evidence for end-Permian collapse of thermohaline circulation Benoit Beauchamp a;Ã, Aymon Baud b a Geological Survey of Canada, 3303, 33rd ST NW, Calgary, AB, Canada T2L 2A7 b Muse¤e cantonal de ge¤ologie, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Received 1 March 2001; accepted 1 February 2002 Abstract The Permian Chert Event (PCE) was a 30 Ma long episode of unusual chert accumulation along the northwest margin of Pangea, and possibly worldwide. The onset of the PCE occurred at about the Sakmarian^Artinskian boundary in the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic, where it coincides with a maximum flooding event, the ending of high-frequency/high-amplitude shelf cyclicity, the onset of massive biogenic chert deposition in deep-water distal areas, and a long-term shift from warm- to cool-water carbonate sedimentation in shallow-water proximal areas. A similar and coeval shift is observed from the Barents Sea to the northwestern USA. A landward and southward expansion of silica factories occurred during the Middle and Late Permian at which time warm-water carbonate producers disappeared completely from the northwest margin of Pangea. Biotically impoverished and increasingly narrow cold-water carbonate factories (characterised by non-cemented bioclasts of sponges, bryozoans, echinoderms and brachiopods) were then progressively replaced by silica factories. By Late Permian time, little carbonate sediments accumulated in the Barents Sea and in the Sverdrup Basin, where the deep- to shallow-water sedimentary spectrum was occupied by siliceous sponge spicules. By that time, biogenic silica sedimentation was common throughout the world. Silica factories collapsed in the Late Permian, abruptly bringing the PCE to an end. In northwest Pangea, the end-Permian collapse of the PCE was associated with a major transgression and with a return to much warmer oceanic and continental climatic conditions. Chert deposition resumed in the distal oceanic areas during the early Middle Triassic (Anisian) after a 8^10 Ma interruption (Early Triassic Chert Gap). The conditions necessary for the onset, expansion and zenith of the PCE were provided by the thermohaline circulation of nutrient-rich cold waters along the northwestern and western margin of Pangea, and possibly throughout the world oceans. These conditions provided an efficient transportation mechanism that constantly replenished the supply of silica in the area, created a nutrient- and oxygen-rich environment favouring siliceous biogenic productivity, established cold sea-floor conditions, hindering silica dissolution, while increasing calcium carbonate solubility, and provided conditions adverse to organic and inorganic carbonate production. The northwest margin of Pangea was, for nearly 30 Ma, bathed by cold waters presumably derived from the seasonal melting of northern sea ice, the assumed engine for thermohaline circulation. * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (B. Beauchamp), [email protected] (A. Baud). 0031-0182/ 02/ $ ^ see front matter ß 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PII: S0031-0182(02)00245-6 PALAEO 2855 7-6-02 38 B. Beauchamp, A. Baud / Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 184 (2002) 37^63 This process started near the Sakmarian^Artinskian boundary, intensified throughout Middle and Late Permian time and ceased suddenly in latest Permian time. It led to oceanic conditions much colder than normally expected from the palaeolatitudes, and the influence of cold northerly-derived water was felt as far south southern Nevada. The demise of silica factories was caused by the rapid breakdown of these conditions and the establishment of a much warmer marine environment accompanied by sluggish circulation and perhaps a reduced input of dissolved silica to the ocean. Complete thawing of northern sea ice would have ended thermohaline circulation and led to warm and sluggish oceanic conditions inimical to the production, accumulation and preservation of biogenic silica. ß 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: chert; carbonate; Permian; Triassic; Pangea; cooling; thermohaline 1. Introduction mian yet sluggish during the Early Triassic. This evidence is based on the widespread occurrence of The end-Permian extinction and associated en- Permian biogenic cherts regionally and the ab- vironmental turnover has received much attention sence of Early Triassic cherts globally. This paper in the literature over the past decade (see summa- builds and expands from the contributions of ries by Erwin, 1993, 1994, 1995), an interest fueled Beauchamp (1994), who ¢rst documented the Per- by the K^T boundary extinction and the extra- mian cooling trend along the northwest margin of terrestrial bolide hypothesis (Alvarez et al., 1980). Pangea, and Beauchamp and Desrochers (1997), Collision with a speeding interplanetary projectile who described and interpreted the range of warm (Xu et al., 1985; Xu and Yan, 1993; Retallack et to cold Permian carbonate and chert facies asso- al., 1998; Becker et al., 2001; Kaiho et al., 2001) ciated with the cooling trend. Both of these con- is but one of numerous causes that have been tributions suggested that oceanic circulation may invoked to explain the end-Permian devastation. have played a major role in the observed cooling, Of particular interest are the purported changes an idea also examined recently by Mei and Hen- to the global oceanic circulation system leading derson (2001) to explain the distribution of con- to, or accompanying, the end-Permian event. Dia- odont fauna. This theme is further developed here. metrically-opposed views have been expressed in the literature. For instance, it has been suggested that the Permian was a time of increasingly slug- 2. Permian Chert Event (PCE) and Early Triassic gish thermohaline circulation (Keith, 1982; Her- Chert Gap (ETCG) ring, 1995), leading to increasingly oxygen-de¢- cient, and ultimately anoxic, bottom waters, the Some episodes of Earth’s history have been rapid and presumably global overturn of which more favourable to chert formation than others contributed to the extinction event (Kajiwara et (Hein and Parrish, 1987; Maliva et al., 1990). al., 1994; Knoll et al., 1996; Suzuki et al., 1998). The term ‘burb’, as in the ‘Eocene Silica Burb’ In contrast, it has been proposed that most of the (McGowran, 1989), or the term ‘event’, as in the Permian was a time of well-oxygenated thermoha- ‘Permian Chert Event’ (Murchey and Jones, line circulation (Isozaki, 1994, 1997), the demise 1992), have been used to label some of these epi- of which led to a worldwide anoxic event during sodes when biogenic silica appears to have been the Lopingian with global anoxia spreading from produced faster and/or preserved more e⁄ciently deep to shallow environments and extending well than during other periods. Likewise, there were into the Early Triassic (Wignall and Hallam, times when very little, if any, biogenic chert was 1992; Wignall et al., 1998). produced and/or preserved. The 8^10 Ma long The goal of this paper is to present evidence Early Triassic ‘Chert Gap’ is one of such events that thermohaline oceanic circulation was vigo- (Casey, 1993; Kakuwa, 1996; Kozur, 1998a,b; rous along the margins of Pangea during the Per- Racki, 1999). PALAEO 2855 7-6-02 B. Beauchamp, A. Baud / Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 184 (2002) 37^63 39 2.1. Prior to PCE: Sakmarian and earlier bonate factories. While biogenic silica production was high during this interval, spiculitic and radio- For most of the Carboniferous period, and up larian deep-water deposits are not necessarily pre- until the Sakmarian (mid Early Permian), biogen- served as chert, but rather as a vast array of ic silica factories existed along the northwest mar- cherty carbonates and mudrocks. Examples of gin of Pangea, occurring in distal, deep-water, such deposits include: the Kuna and Tupik for- slope to basinal areas adjacent to productive car- mations and the Akmalik and Imnaitchiak forma- Fig. 1. Stratigraphic chart of Sverdrup Basin showing range of Permian Chert Event against Carboniferous and Permian stages and corresponding radiometric dates (Jin et al., 1997; Menning, 1995), major sequence-bounding unconformities and formations in proximal basin margin areas and correlative units in distal basin centre areas, assumed (Golonka et al., 1994) and measured (Ogg and Steiner, 1991) palaeolatitudes in ‡N, on-land climatic setting based on non-marine indicators (Beauchamp, 1994) and palynomorphs (Utting, 2001), and assumed marine temperatures based on biogenic and abiogenic indicators (Beauchamp and Desrochers, 1997). Modi¢ed from Beauchamp (1995) and Beauchamp et al. (2001). PALAEO 2855 7-6-02 40 B. Beauchamp, A. Baud / Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 184 (2002) 37^63 tions of northern Alaska (Moore et al., 1994; The Bashkirian to Sakmarian Hare Fiord For- Beauchamp, 1995), the Hart River and Blackie mation of the Sverdrup Basin is a good example formations of the northern Yukon Territory of such deposits (Fig. 1). The Hare Fiord Forma- (Richards et al., 1997; Beauchamp, 1995), the tion comprises spiculitic limestones associated Ban¡ and the Prophet formations from the south- with dark-brown mudrocks (argillaceous lime- west regions of the Northwest Territories to stones, siltstones, shales and cherts) occurring
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